"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
  I am, therefore, thoroughly convinced that American
English,
 if it follows the current trend, will degenerate into a sequence of
 monosyllabic grunts and whines by the time another couple or three
 generations have passed. 
Huh?  :-)
You mean it hasn't already?  D'oh!